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Has writing ever been developed in societies that didn’t have things like monumental architecture, powerful hierarchies, domestic plants and animals, large settlements etc.? Did hunter-gatherers ever develop it?
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Some artists/designers combine engineering and art (ie kinetic sculpture), some combine biology and art (ie transgenic art). Do you know of any artists who combine history and art?
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There are engineer/designers who make kinetic art, geneticist/designers who make organisms with artistic flourishes, ecologist/designers who use machinery to show how difficult it would be to artificially recreate broken natural processes. Are there historian/designers, and if so what do they make?
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Nowadays our cities and town are filled with memorials to people, often on park benches. Did this practice have an equivalent in most other societies?
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Will there be more phylums of animal in the future or are we stuck woth mammals, reptiles, fish etc.? Can we say anything concrete about what future animals might be like?
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Do you think dreaming is a skill you can deliberately develop? If so, what distinguishes a skilled dreamer from an unskilled dreamer? If not, why not?
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To what extent is our capacity to change our social structures linked to our discovery of new techniques for working with materials?
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I've heard that "Many Nazis after the WWII believed Germany actually saved Europe from the spread of Jewish Bolshevism or Communism." Did they really console themselves in this way?
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